[pulseaudio-tickets] [PulseAudio] #251: Causes a deadlock when the pulseserver dies

[PulseAudio]

#251: Causes a deadlock when the pulseserver dies
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  Reporter:  sjoerd     |       Owner:  lennart
      Type:  defect     |      Status:  new    
  Priority:  high       |   Milestone:         
 Component:  gst-pulse  |    Severity:  normal 
Resolution:             |    Keywords:         
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Comment (by coling):

 Just for completeness this does not require pa to "die", the stream just
 needs to be terminated (e.g. via pavucontrol) to deadlock the application
 - tested here with rhythmbox.

 I think this may also be causing some applications to "go into a
 memory/cpu cyle eating loop". I've seen problems with e.g. gnome-power-
 manager and pidgin when I've had to kill PA or the streams after a resume
 form STR where the alsa driver has hiccuped and not allowed me to play
 sounds. Reloading the alsa driver "fixes" it but to do so I have to kill
 PA as it's "hogging" the device due to some frozen gstreamer streams.

 Gstreamer streams seem to just sit there when the pa server gets into this
 state but e.g. paplay will play and quit as usual.

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